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August 27, 2025

Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors

(Wired) – Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a major turn in of the most significant ongoing AI copyright lawsuits in history. The move will allow Anthropic … Read More

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August 27, 2025

Autism is on the rise: what’s really behind the increase?

(Nature) – RFK Jr has vowed to find out what’s responsible, but scientists say he is ignoring answers from decades of research. There are several reasons to think that a rise in diagnoses explains a large part of this trend. … Read More

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August 26, 2025

We’ve seen ‘designer babies’ before. The pagans optimized their offspring

(Unherd) – As the historian Nadya Williams has shown, Greece and Rome offer proof that the parental quest for quality control over offspring is anything but new. Indeed, the popular stories of the era vigorously affirmed such practices. From Thetis … Read More

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August 26, 2025

The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI’s ChatGPT is to blame

(NBC News) – The parents of Adam Raine, who died by suicide in April, claim in a new lawsuit against OpenAI that the teenager used ChatGPT as his “suicide coach.” Adam’s parents say that he had been using the artificial … Read More

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August 26, 2025

My Year of Living Blurrily

(New York Times) – The painting beckoned me from across the room. In a bright, high-ceilinged gallery of the Courtauld, a small museum in London known for its collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, I moved past van Gogh’s “Self-Portrait … Read More

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August 26, 2025

AI Is Eliminating Jobs for Younger Workers

(Wired) – New research from Stanford provides the clearest available evidence that AI is reshaping the workforce—but it’s complicated. Economists at Stanford University have found the strongest evidence yet that artificial intelligence is starting to eliminate certain jobs. But the … Read More

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August 26, 2025

Attorneys General To AI Chatbot Companies: You Will ‘Answer For It’ If You Harm Children

(404 Media) – Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter to 11 chatbot and social media companies on Monday, warning them that they will “answer for it” if they knowingly harm children and urging the companies to see their products … Read More

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August 26, 2025

Breakthrough new treatment could REVERSE Down syndrome

(Daily Mail) – Cutting-edge technology could one day transform treatment for Down syndrome, as researchers have successfully deleted an extra chromosome in lab-grown cells. Down syndrome – which occurs when a person has three copies of chromosome 21 instead of … Read More

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August 26, 2025

What It Really Means to Choose Life

(New York Times) – If cherishing the suffering can make a nation kind, then discarding the suffering makes it cruel. It can breed a sense of contempt — why should we care for this hopeless cause? — and when our … Read More

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August 26, 2025

Teens Are Using Chatbots as Therapists. That’s Alarming.

(New York Times) – Marketed as conversational agents, chatbots are becoming de facto digital therapists for many teens, for whom this technology now feels native. This raises the stakes for ensuring these tools are safe and governed by enforceable standards. … Read More

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August 26, 2025

Scientists perform the first pig-to-human lung transplant

(Science News) – Scientists have, for the first time, transplanted a genetically engineered pig lung into a human. The lung tissue remained alive for nine days after the transplant despite early signs of inflammation, researchers report August 25 in Nature … Read More

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August 26, 2025

The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity

(Wired) – Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture. Diffusion models, the backbone of image-generating tools such as … Read More

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August 26, 2025

Silicon Valley Launches Pro-AI PACs to Defend Industry in Midterm Elections

(Wall Street Journal) – Silicon Valley is putting more than $100 million into a network of political-action committees and organizations to advocate against strict artificial-intelligence regulations, a signal that tech executives will be active in next year’s midterm elections. Venture-capital … Read More

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August 26, 2025

Eli Lilly’s obesity pill remains a viable rival to Novo’s oral Wegovy despite data that underwhelmed investors

(NBC News) – Eli Lilly’s stock is still recovering after the drugmaker released trial data earlier this month on its closely watched obesity pill that underwhelmed Wall Street. In a key late-stage trial, Eli Lilly’s pill, orforglipron, caused less weight … Read More

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August 25, 2025

A New Edition of Research Ethics is Now Available

Research Ethics (vol. 21, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:

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